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Seeing more, seeing better Ben Q 3200U

Seeing more isn’t just about spatial resolution The concept of being able to do more if you can see more by employing higher resolution, larger, and multiple monitors is now well understood and appreciated. A ...

Autodesk increases revenue and brings in new subscribers

Still, investors get nervous on news of restructuring and layoffs Autodesk has reported consistent results with increased revenue year over year and steady transition to subscription. The company has also announced a restructuring plan which ...

VESA DisplayID 2.0 Optimizes Plug-and-Play for Displays

Updated for 4K, HDR, AR/VR and other advanced features The Video Electronics Standards Association, affectionally known simply as VESA announced a major update to its Display Identification Data (DisplayID) standard. The organization says this new ...

Intel Extreme Masters eSports Tournament, Oakland CA

From time to time, we attend eSports tournaments from time to time to take the pulse of this burgeoning phenomenon. eSports are not new to the world however and date back to the 1970’s when ...

AI: In search of softer, less scary assistants

As the wedding between GPUs and AI move from the honeymoon to the serious setting up of a household and becoming a member of society, it will have to find a new name for itself. ...

FutureWrite Conference: New Input

New announcements, technologies, and alliances announced at FutureWrite conference for digital ink technologies are a portal to the future of human centric computing. There are a lot of people who think you should be going ...

Free at last—HTC cuts the wires that bind

Now you can walk away from your computer—maybe HTC has announced the Vive Focus, which they say is an all-in-one mobile device free from any connections to PCs or smartphones.   HTC’s wireless VR HMD ...

Got too much money, want a gaming board?

Line up at the nearest Nvidia store to get a TitanX Collector’s Edition Coming soon—Nvidia’s Titan X Collectors Edition AIB (Nvidia) Blinking lights, anybody’d guess what’s in it?  HBM2 maybe, a la Volta. A big ...

Moore’s law is getting expensive

Gorgon Moore’s observation in 1965 about the increasing density of transistors per square millimeter of silicon while maintaining the price and yet increasing the performance is undergoing a tremendous change this year and looking forward. ...

Nvidia’s Q3 FY18 results

$2.64 billion in sales, $838 million profit-up 44% from last quarter Nvidia reported record revenue for the third quarter ended October 29, 2017, of $2.64 billion, up 32 percent from $2.00 billion a year earlier, ...

VR is still a DIY situation, but getting more robust

Tinkerers and game enthusiasts love VR. The only genuine consumer VR system in the market today is Sony’s PS4 VR, everything else is a patchwork of items bought from various suppliers and bolted together by ...

Is the Arm machine learning a tough lesson?

Finding intelligence out at the edge, or not Arm has a new group, formed quietly back in July and announced recently, that it calls its Machine Learning Group, which is a sub-group within the Client ...